Jini technology owes its inception to Sun Microsystems. During 1999, Sun Microsystems contributed Jini to the “Jini Community.” Jini is available for free to the programming world. Serious work is in progress by its community members to impart the enhancements to this technology through the open Jini Community Decision Process.

It is developed by the members of the Jini Community with the help of open Jini Community Decision Process. As distributed computing became popular, the terminology of network architecture denoted classifications and implementations of distributed computing architectures.

According to Sun Microsystems, “the term Jini refers to both a set of specifications and an implementation; the latter is referred to as the Jini Starter Kit. Both the specifications and the Starter Kit have been released under the Apache 2.0 license and have been offered to the Apache Software Foundation's Incubator.”